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Only one thing held his attention. In 1850 as a 13-year-old old boy on his way to school he passed the Barclay Iron Works. He said he was captivated, even obsessed with the red, glowing rivulets ...

History is situated within the School of Social Sciences and engages in research across wide chronological and geographical spans, from the eleventh to twentieth centuries. The Centre for Public ...

This conviction underlay the Victorian workhouses in 19th-century England that Charles Dickens critiqued through his novels. U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., put it bluntly earlier this month: ...

Rail services between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton will be disrupted this evening, Thursday, May 29, due to essential maintenance works on the track. Wellington Railway Station. Image: Google Street ...

Oliver Twist follows the journey of its orphaned protagonist, who endures harsh and unjust conditions from child farms and workhouses to involvement in criminal activities. Frequently misled by ...

Washington National Opera's production makes a radical and joyful declaration of the power and resiliency of community. So much has happened in this year at the Kennedy Center, and perhaps most ...

Thousands were living in workhouses, and thousands of children ... on a three-month voyage to Melbourne , arriving on March 31, 1850. Then president Mary McAleese laying a wreath in March 2003 ...

These brain fragments ocame from an individual buried in a Victorian workhouse cemetery in the United Kingdom, some 200 years ago. No other soft tissue survived amongst the bones, which were ...

NEW DELHI: Century Real Estate has raised Rs 1,850 crore debt to expand its business and encash strong demand for properties. The company will use this fund in both ongoing and upcoming housing and ...

A district nurse's bag, circa 1920-1930. The general gist of nursing through the ages is told through the lens of Gressenhall Workhouse in Norfolk. This thread of getting staff involved runs ...